News from June 2021
By USDA Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
Release: On June 2, 2021, USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) published a final notice in the Federal Register announcing the addition of plant taxa to the Not Authorized Pending Pest Risk Analysis (NAPPRA) list. This includes 26 plant taxa that are quarantine pests (weeds), 43 plant taxa ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and William S. Walker, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Boston, announced that LUCIANO SOLIS-SANCHEZ, 36, a citizen of Mexico last residing in Waterbury, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to immigration and controlled substances offenses.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: ADVISORY: Republican Meeting: “With Over $450 Million Lost, Workers and Small Businesses Need Bipartisan Renewal of Trade Bills".
By William Gibb | Jun 24, 2021
Montana may see an above-average wildfire season this year, and the state’s governor is calling for decisive and proactive efforts to find a solution.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: The House Appropriations Committee today released the draft fiscal year 2022 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies funding bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. The legislation funds agencies and programs within the Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the Farm Credit Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: Was on parole for prior felonies when he possessed the gun.
By Valerie Bonk | Jun 24, 2021
South Dakota's governor said she plans to appeal a judge's ruling to uphold a Department of Interior decision to cancel the Mount Rushmore fireworks display this year and that she will fight to bring it back for future years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Samuel Christopher Templeman (46, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to conspiring to sex traffic a child. His wife, Deborah Lynn Templeman (50, Jacksonville), has pleaded guilty to possession of child sex abuse material. Samuel Templeman faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison, and Deborah Templeman faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3 million grant to the city of Branson, Missouri, to construct a floodwall needed to protect infrastructure vital to the business community from flooding. The EDA grant will be matched with $6.6 million in state funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Portsmouth woman pleaded guilty today to her involvement in a fraudulent scheme to obtain over $300,000 in pandemic-related unemployment benefits by using the personal identifying information of over 30 Virginia prison inmates.
By Solange DeLisle | Jun 24, 2021
Traditionally, places like the National Park Service will set aside a time slot for people to reserve a campsite online, but more and more prospective campers are running into the same issue and finding that all the sites are booked up.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Wilmington man was sentenced today to 30 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm. On March 24, 2021, Xavier Jamar Hall pled guilty to the charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Imad Dawara, 40, of Swathmore, PA, and Bahaa Dawara, 32, of Woodlyn, PA, were both sentenced this week by United States District Court Chief Judge Juan R. Sanchez to nine years in prison and ordered to pay more than $22 million in restitution for conspiracy to commit arson and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a Committee hearing examining the policies and priorities of the Department of Education...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
Release: Today, the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Commerce, and Department of Labor announced measures to address the People’s Republic of China’s ongoing human rights abuses and use of forced labor in Xinjiang. We will continue to work with our partners and allies to promote accountability for...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Cut Bank man accused of strangling and assaulting a woman on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation admitted multiple charges on June 23, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - A Gulfport man pled guilty to being an unlawful drug user in possession of a firearm, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Kurt Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned a second superseding indictment that adds a new defendant, Kiara Haynes, age 36, of Baltimore, charging her with two counts of using a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime, causing the death of Jennifer Jeffrey and her seven-year-old...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: Conventional microscopes provide essential information about samples in two dimensions - the plane of the microscope slide. But flat is not all that. In many instances, information about the object in the third dimension - the axis perpendicular to the microscope slide - is just as important to measure.
